Category: Rock Band

PAX (Penny Arcade Expo) is, without a doubt, the most supportive, friendliest and hospitable convention we have the good fortune to attend every year. Top to bottom, from the folks running the show to the fans walking the floor, every person we run into is high five worthy. PAX this year was absolut...
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Last week your globe trotting friends on the Community Team packed our bags and headed off to the land of bier and schnitzel. Our destination? Cologne for the 2010 Gamescom conference. For those of you not familiar with Gamescom, its one of the largest games fairs and promotional events in the world...
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Trying to summarize our adventure to Comic-Con which was Harmonixs first time on the floor and my first Community trip is one of the most daunting things Ive done to date at this job. In some ways, a string of words would almost work better: long lines, thick crowds, loud noises, super short skirt...
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Jessa is the Dance Central Product/Community Manager at Harmonix. But more importantly she is the driver of a zombie apocalypse van that you must prove your value to join and seats are limited. Her corgis, Nellie and Watson, take up 1 seat.

Ive been fortunate enough to attend every PAX at which Rock Band has been present. Explaining the joyful insanity that is PAX to someone who hasnt attended is a challenge, but explaining the LUNACY that is the musical presence at this gaming convention is near impossible.
Every year in Seattle, I w...
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For the inaugural PAX East at the Hynes Convention Center, we decided to forgo the show floor and went all dive-bar with the Rock Band Lounge. All weekend long we had a packed house of awesome fans coming in to rock out, chill on the couches, and meet HMX devs! Thanks to everyone who came and made t...
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So PAX East in Boston is just around the corner and we couldn't be more stoked to see you guys! As Im sure you can tell from our Twitter feeds, the Community team has been pretty busy the past few months getting things in order for our rocking booth. Well have all sorts of excellent things going on ...
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Carolyn VanEseltine is a web QA tester at Harmonix. When not searching for ways to break the website, she daydreams about forming a band with her friends. Unfortunately, most of her musically inclined friends rock harder than she does, which does not bode well for her future membership.
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Carolyn VanEseltine is a web QA tester at Harmonix. When not searching for ways to break the website, she plays the harp and piano with varying degrees of skill. She can play All You Need Is Love on both instruments, but not simultaneously.
On September 9, 2009, The Beatles: Rock Band hit the...
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In July, HMXKat and I headed to London, England with Josh Randall, Project Director for The Beatles: Rock Band, to kick off the European Press Tour. Before the press tour we got to spend some quality time in Abbey Road Studio 2 doing some pre-tour press stuff.
It was one of the pleasures and honors...
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